Hot pick: Local Music Guide’s 10th anniversary party

Five local bands will be on tap for the anniversary party celebrating the Local Music Guide.

LMG was founded 10 years ago by Tommy Mann Jr. to provide concert information for local bands and venues for music lovers in Southeast Texas. Prior to Facebook, this was pretty much the only way to know when any bands were playing in town.

The website has branched out in 10 years but without getting cheesy. It features music news and information as well as interviews with local and national artists.

Headliners are Create a Monster, which include many familiar local music faces. Jason Touchette, Paul Soroski, Keith Slack and Blake Sticker have banded together to create a thunderous night of live music.

Hard rockers Forever Falls and Knuckle Deep will perform, as well as cover bands Vintage Thunder and My Beautiful Disaster, who will open the night.

The Gig is possibly the best place to hear hard, pulsating rock in Beaumont right now. The stage is the perfect height and the open area is transformable to a dance floor or a mosh pit.

While local music has changed quite a bit in the last 10 years, LMG has been there to chronicle and inform us along the way. And we don’t have to deal with Farmville requests in the process.